#Mint Teenz

[roboticdreamz]

I just figured out how to post music so I'm just going to drop it here lol

Basically some tracks I made for one of my side project called Mint Teenz. It has strong Y2k vibes, mainly drawing inspiration from Diva Starz and Bratz.

[parasiticmercury]

❗ This will mostly cover the production history from 2022-2024, rather the lore itself. I'll be infodumping the lore in another day.

Early Concept (The Stars of the Unknown)

So, I usually get OC ideas whenever I end up jumping into fandoms. In 2022, I was practically listening to Nirvana and Foo Fighters. And as usual, I went to create an OC.

The first one I created was Scal Holden. He was basically describe as a "Kurt Cobain-type of guy who secretly listens to Eurobeat".

All of their stories was written in the early drafts/concept called Stars of the Unknown. And in that draft, Scal was called Court (after Kurt Cobain) and Zoe was called Taylor (after Taylor Hawkins). The only person who didn't undergo name changes was Dave Silver.

Eventually, I decided to change their names and fleshed them out. I named their band Parasitic Mercury after reading a fact that parasites had heavy metal inside them.

Soon I decided to add another member of the band because I was redrawing an old art and it has free space. So I created Apple Farscotch. Usually, I barely flesh out filler OCs by the time I create them because they were mostly designed to fill out a space in an art (this also happened to Apple Saucce in my other project, Mint Teenz. Coincidentally, both are named Apple and a redhead).

After that, I abandoned the project because I was no longer interested.

2024 Retcon

In late 2024, I decided to revive the side project after getting into Metallica once again. I gotta admit during the early production in 2022, I ended up putting some references of the band after I also jumped into the fandom that year.

This time, I went to focus on fleshing out the characters and delving into their history more. I also end up redesigning Apple as well, making them resemble like Cliff Burton opposed to Dave resembling Kirk Hammett.

As of now, the project is still being fleshed out and the lore is subjected to change in the near future if I felt like changing it.

[elizabethplaid]

I organize by the fit-size, then by type (shirt, skirt, pants) for the fits-most-Barbies. The stuff that fits Ken overlaps to my 1-4 scale clothes, but I try to keep those separated by what size they’re intended for. So Ken stuff stays with 1-6 scale, but Moxie Teenz and Teen Trends will be 1-4.

More text and a few pics below the cut.

I use hangers for longer items, though I end up throwing everything back in a pile. Nothing stays organized for long. If not for the bulk bin rubbermade container, I have document boxes and rolling drawer-carts to separate categories. Actually, I’m in between systems right now; still trying to figure out what works better.

For smaller things, like socks and underwear, I’ve been using little tins I’ve gotten over the years. I don’t have any good photos of it, sorry.

I guess my “best” item for organizing has been my doll trunks. They mostly hold 1-4 scale stuff and long 1-6 dresses. I have another that’s just for props and such.

Props trunk - Barbie case that I painted. The drawers swing out, rather than slide, so they don’t hold much.

Barbie Look closet, for some hanging things. I put boots and big shoes on the shelves.

Twiggy trunk, by Franklin Mint. I added another closet rod in the “doll storage” space.

Another Barbie travel case. The closet rod on the right swings out to be a big hoop, so it’s really helpful when rearranging hangers.

Shoe storage, in a box of cherry cordials. I used wrapping paper to decorate.

I wrapped a bunch of boxes like this, but I don’t have stuff stored in most of ‘em yet.

Old view of my craft room table (2014). The clear drawers on the right are a taller version of the rolling-cart-drawers that I used for clothes storage. And yes, that’s a thread rack for heads. The gold box on the left stores some shoes and jewelry - just the stuff I use most frequently.

How do y'all organize your doll clothes?

Right now I just have mine in ziploc bags and drifting around in a big Rubbermaid tub.

I'm trying to decide if matched outfits should be kept together or as separates. Should liv doll clothes be separated from barbie clothes? Idk just takes forever to find anything.

[roboticdreamz]

Mint Teenz

To be honest, I have a lot of old OCs. And recently I'm trying to reboot them again for a new iteration. It's called Mint Teenz.

But first...

What is Mint Teenz?

Mint Teenz, originally named Mitiz, are my old OCs that was created way back around 2005 or 2006. It featured four girls: Bubble Gumm, Cotton Canndy, Pepper Minnt, and Popp Cornn.

There's not much about the first iteration except it was heavily inspired by doll lines at the time, most notably Bratz and Diva Starz (the latter literally had a huge impact on my arts back in the day).

Their original slogan was a nonsense one that has nothing to do with the food theme: A Dream With Love

2014 Reboot:

Somehow the series wasn't really much attended back then since I was focusing another set of OCs at that time and was further forgotten when my interests shifted to anime in 2007 and furry characters in 2008. But in 2014, there was an attempt reboot.

Pepper Minnt's name was changed from Minntie Minnt to Pepper Minnt and Cotton Canndy's name was corrected.

Not much about this reboot except I attempted to modernize their fashion instead sticking to the original Y2k looks.

But pretty much this reboot flopped and I didn't really focused on it until 2018...

2018-Present:

In 2018, I ended up obsessing on old dolls again and it got me motivated to reboot the series for the third time. This time, Mint Teenz finally got their own lore.

Each girl was given a personality rather than being fashionable characters:

Bubble Gumm is the leader of the group and she is very sporty and competetive.

Cotton Canndy is the extrovert, and she loves traveling in different places.

Pepper Minnt is the artsy one, and she loves drawing and fashion design.

Popp Cornn is sweet and kind. She's also a humanitarian.

Their designs were also reverted to their Y2k roots and they even had a website (which is unfortunately unfinished) as a promo.

In 2024, they were redesigned a bit to look much like their main inspiration and their personalities are further polished, adding some negative qualities to them.

Aside from Bubble Gumm's energetic and determined personality, she also has temper issues.

Cotton Canndy had a habit on eavesdropping and gossiping. She's practically knows every secret in their school.

Pepper Minnt is pretty much an introvert. She has a very stoic personality and tends to talk bland and sometimes even sarcastic.

Popp Cornn may come off as annoying with her extreme positivity and her soft spoken voice.

As for now, I really don't have plans to them other than just writing their lores.

Though maybe someday I might develop a game based on them.

[roboticdreamz]

My interests and obsessions

So I have a lot of interests and strangely all of it has an expiration date (that means I really can't stick to one fandom). And I usually move on to another fandom in two methods:

Media no longer has new content and it bored me already

So this media is inspired on something else/featured this actor so I went to check that media and eventually I found myself obsessed with this thing I saw, leaving the previous fandom silently.

But there are times I often obsess on that media again after a few years (like I became a Metallica fan in late 2022 and in late 2024 I returned liking Metallica again). Sometimes, it doesn't return at all unfortunately.

By default, I usually talk about my OCs or looking at old archives that defined the early 2000s. I'm mostly focused doing on my projects nowadays since they're more important to me.

Here's the list of projects I'm doing recently:

Patsy n' Crinkles (Main priority. It's a game I'm currently developing rn)

Why Foxy?

Mint Teenz

Parasitic Mercury

Rinzu Hane (my UTAUloid OC)